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‘One of our main objectives is to influence and improve ways in which public services such as education, health, social care  and criminal justice are delivered to the mixed race population though discussion and debate, research, campaigns and the arts’

'People in Harmony (PIH) was established in 1972 as a support group for families at a time  when the disadvantages of racial mixing were emphasised in the wider society'.                                                          

'Mixed race children have been over represented in the public care system for too long and a report shows that mixed race children are also much more likely to be excluded from school and to be considered as problems'                                                                     

‘The insistence on a policy by social workers of same race placements has meant that black and mixed race children wait longer for families and race is treated as the overriding aspect and the major matching consideration’

"….. information such as ethnicity, sex and age took precedence over any other sources of information when foster placements and children were matched"….. What information is needed to match children and families? Read 'Mixed Heritage and Proud' by Sarah Bennett in People in Harmony Newsletter Spring 2012….